Unbelievably giant animals

There animals are so enormous, they look Photoshopped – but they're not.

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Goliath frogs are now endangered species hunted for food

Pictures of the tragic piglet show it bears more similarities to humans than pigs.

Breeders Walter Oscar Velez and wife Roxana Noemi Villarreal, who also produce charcoal at their farm, said that they were “devastated” at the loss.

It is the latest in a number of horrific mutations in the country which is at the centre of a row over the use of pesticides and genetically modified foods.

Other recent cases include a goat born with two heads in the same province, a calf with two heads and six legs in the north-eastern province of Entre Rios, a goat with a human baby's face in the centre of the country and a real-life spider pig born with eight legs in El Galpon in north-eastern Argentina.

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Some people believe environmental pollution plays a role in the animals' peculiar appearance and untimely deaths.

Pharmacologist and paediatric specialist Dr Medardo Avila Vazquez said: "Around 12 million Argentines live in regions where soybeans are cultivated, surrounded by the fields where glyphosate is sprayed.

"In the province of Chaco, where soybeans are grown, we found the numbers of deformations quadrupled in a 10 year period, in the same timeframe the cultivation of soybean increased seven times. I see children dying all the time at the clinic where I work."

A group of medical professionals in Argentina called Medicos de Pueblos Fumigados (Doctors of Sprayed Villages) have shared other cases of deformed animals on their website.

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Weird, deformed animals from around the world

Have you seen the two headed kittens? Or what about the goat with the human face? We've rounded up the good, the weird and the really, really ugly in animal deformities from around the globe.